In keeping with our fire safety/home safety theme today we read our safety books at group time and discussed different safety situations and how we would handle them. We talked about how and where a fire could start and what we would do. Most of the children knew what to do at home, and that they should go out a window if a door was not available. We practiced staying calm, and staying low and crawling away from the fire to a safe exit. In situations other than fires we practiced ALWAYS trying to find an adult to help before calling 911.
After group time we set up a pretend fire truck using the two play tables and a bunch of chairs. Some of the children became ladder fire fighters, some became hose fire fighters, some became the rescuers and some were the drivers. As the children were getting into their fire fighting rolls I put some paper flames on our play house and placed some baby dolls into the house as well. When the alarm sounded the children went to the play house, put out the fire and rescued the babies. We played this over and over again, the children LOVED it! They took turns playing the different fire fighting rolls and also made up many different rescue scenarios. We really worked on staying calm (running and screaming to the play house would scare the babies!) We also worked on crawling low to stay out of the smoke and working together. One fire fighter can not put out the whole fire and also rescue the people! It takes great teamwork to be a fire fighter. The children really enjoyed themselves and worked really well together, it was great fun.
For lunch we ordered a veggie pizza and bread sticks! Of course everyone really loved that!
After lunch we got out our nap mats, sang our story time song and read a chapter of Junie B. Jones. Then we said our good night poem and went to sleep. After our nap we had a snack and spent quite a while playing outside on the climber, play house and sled. When we came back in we had some quiet play time before going home for the evening.